PHP mail() function,sending mail as HTML code

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I am facing a problem where when I send mail using mail(), it sends the HTML code in the mail. This is my code:

<?php
$message = "<table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'>
  <tr>
    <td colspan=2>Dear ".$_POST['fname']."&nbsp;".$_POST['lname'].",</td>
  </tr>
   <tr>
    <td colspan=2>Thank you for contacting us.We will get back to you in next 48 hrs.Your Contacts Details are as follows:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width='28%' >Title</td>
    <td width='72%'>".$_POST['title']."</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Email</td>
    <td>".$_POST['email']."</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Your Message</td>
    <td>".$_POST['message']."</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>How did you hear about us? </td>
    <td>".$checkBox."</td>
  </tr>
</table>
";  

$subject = "ContactUs";
$headers .= "From: ".$from_mail." \r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

mail($_POST["coach"], $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

And the output which I am getting in my e-mail looks like this:

<table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'>
  <tr>
    <td colspan=2>Dear Test User,</td>
  </tr>
   <tr>
    <td colspan=2>Thank you for contacting us.Your Contacts Details are as follows:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width='28%' >Title</td>
    <td width='72%'>Mr.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Email</td>
    <td>[email protected]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Your Message</td>
    <td>Test Message</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>How did you hear about us? </td>
    <td>www.example.com</td>
  </tr>
</table>

I don't know why is this happening. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Mayank K. Swami · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-06 09:56:29Z

3

try this

$header  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset: utf8\r\n";

also try : PHPMailer

answered Dec 6, 2012 at 9:56

Mayank K. Swami

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Mayank K. Swami Over a year ago

@Tornado yours very welcome also check this

Toretto Over a year ago

But I need to confirm that why is it happned if I use Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n.

Mayank K. Swami Over a year ago

@Tornado you need to use mime type to send html please check link my previous comment

Anand 10 · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-06 09:58:12Z

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Use

html_entity_decode()

eg. mail($_POST["coach"], $subject, html_entity_decode($message), $headers);

answered Dec 6, 2012 at 9:58

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Soumya Roy · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-06 11:04:32Z

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add the following code in header portion

<?php
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
?>

answered Dec 6, 2012 at 11:04

Soumya Roy

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